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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

Krebs on Security

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. Joker’s sold cards stolen in a steady drip of breaches at U.S.

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a competing proxy service that had been in operation since 2014. Constella Intelligence , a security firm that indexes passwords and other personal information exposed in past data breaches, revealed dozens of variations on email addresses used by Alexander I. ru and alphadisplay[.]ru,

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Krebs on Security

. “They compound the problem by gating the recovery process with information that’s likely available or inferable from third party data brokers, or that could have been exposed in previous data breaches,” Roan said. 2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers.

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SSNDOB marketplace shut down by global law enforcement operation

Malwarebytes

Joker’s Stash, trading since 2014 , received more than $100,000 in Bitcoin from SSNDOB. Once your data is out there, you can’t get it back. Data breaches are so common that multiple services exist to check if you’ve been impacted. The threat of stolen PII.

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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor , Mozilla Monitor also checks data from the website Have I Been Pwned? to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches. Shelest denied ever being associated with Spamit.

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Krebs on Security

In 2010, this author received a massive data dump from a source that had hacked into or otherwise absconded with more than four years of email records from ChronoPay — at the time a major Russian online payment provider whose CEO and co-founders were the chief subjects of my 2014 book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime.